Not everybody likes the idea of Yahoo buying Tumblr

May 23, 2013
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This photo illustration shows the splash page for Yahoo and blogging platform Tumblr seen on an iPhone. The board of Yahoo! has agreed to a deal to purchase the popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. / Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images

by William M. Welch, USA TODAY

by William M. Welch, USA TODAY

Yahoo's planned purchase of website Tumblr isn't sitting well with some of the blogging platform's users.

Voices of opposition or concern were raised on Tumblr as word of the sale spread.

Techcrunch.com cited some posted on the Tumblr site: "If yahoo buys tumblr, where are we meeting to build our barricade?'' posted someone with the online name youatthebarricadelistentothis32.

Another, identified as thexexygiraffes, wrote, "The whole Yahoo buying Tumblr is actually stressing me out. I mean I'm kind of scared, and I don't want anything to happen to the place seriously.'' The poster concluded with a profane wish for Yahoo "to go the ... away.''

Techcrunch.com quoted one of its co-editors, who it identified only by a first name, Alexia, as saying "Tumblr is a part of my identity. And for whatever reason, I don't want to identify with Yahoo.'' She wrote that she had been a user of Tumblr since 2009.

Business Insider reported users were trying to mount a petition drive opposing the purchase and cited other dissent.

A user of Tumblr with the name "dontletyourdreamsbedreams'' wrote to Tumblr leadership, "if you sell tumblr to yahoo, we will come after you.''